Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

- Stone, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William